George Canning Quotes

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

We're living in hard times.

I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.

There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.

I've had, what, two years? Probably five good years. Before that I had twenty years of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All those things. That'll always outweigh the good times.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

There's no way I would have got to see so much of the world, with my humble background, without modelling. We were penniless and hungry for most of my youth. I washed the sheets in the bathtub in my bedroom and hung them out of the window on the clothes line, which in winter was difficult as the sheets would freeze and get stuck to the line.

My life was pretty rough.

There were so many lean years. A lot of lean years.

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

No one is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.

When I started out, I struggled, and I was broke a lot. But I'm glad I struggled, and I'm glad I was broke a lot.

Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year.

I had spent many days hungry; had slept on railway stations at times because I did not have money to pay for a hotel room... there were moments when I felt I had compromised my dignity as a human being and as an actor.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

There are just way too many people suffering out there.

I lived for two years with six girls in an apartment that was built for three people, and it had no heat. We would sleep in our coats and in sleeping bags. And it was great.

My mother had various jobs, from where she was regularly fired as politically undesirable. I often saw her crying and mumbling that we'll starve to death.

I did just about anything to pay the rent for a while.

For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.